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The physician and professor at the Charité medical school in Berlin, Rahel Hirsch was born in Frankfurt/M. in 1870, the paternal granddaughter of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. In 1913, she became the first woman in Prussia to be appointed a professor in medicine. Her discovery starch granules in blood and urine became known as the "Hirsch effect". Rahel Hirsch died in London in 1953.

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Rahel Hirsch (profile), Leo Baeck Institute, F 2886A.